Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications

The Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 (WCF 4.0) is a .NET-based application programming interface for building and running connected systems. It enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. This book deals with the difficult issues faced by a .NET developer while working with WCF.

This book is a collection of focused real-world recipes and covers basic recipes on topics such as working with contracts to more advanced topics such as extending WCF runtime. You will discover some useful tips for security in WCF service development and built-in features for developing concurrency control your services. By the end of this book you will have valuable information that helps transform the potentially unproductive habits of .Net developers who work with WCF.

What you will learn from this book :
- Share a physical address between multiple endpoints
- Custom binding without a Timestamp header
- Bind a WPF element with data from WCF service
- Invoke a WCF service without blocking the front UI
- Build a WCF service with ad hoc security mode
- Intercept WCF operation messages with MessageInspector
- Extend WCF security with custom AuthorizationManager
- Build REST-style services with WCF
- Call WCF services from AJAX script clients

If you work with Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 and you want to be efficient when working with WCF features such as interoperability, proxy generation, and security, you will find this book very useful. With this book you will be able to find quick and handy solutions for various kinds of service development scenarios using Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0. To follow the recipes you will need to be comfortable with .NET Framework, C# programming, and the basics of SOA and how to develop them.